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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR

       CHAPTER II ARRESTS MULTIPLY

       CHAPTER III FATHER O'COIGLY HANGED

       CHAPTER IV THE BETRAYER'S INTERVIEW WITH TALLEYRAND

       CHAPTER V LORD CLONCURRY SHADOWED

       CHAPTER VI THE MASK TORN OFF AT LAST

       CHAPTER VII DR. MACNEVIN'S MEMORIAL INTERCEPTED

       CHAPTER VIII GENERAL NAPPER TANDY

       CHAPTER IX ARREST OF JÄGERHORN IN LONDON—THE PLOT THICKENS—TURNER SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD

       CHAPTER X EFFORTS TO EXCITE MUTINY IN THE ENGLISH FLEET

       CHAPTER XI THE BETRAYER OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD [284]

       CHAPTER XII WILLIAM TODD JONES. EMMET'S REBELLION

       CHAPTER XIII THOMAS COLLINS. PHILLIPS THE SACERDOTAL SPY

       CHAPTER XIV LEONARD MCNALLY

       CHAPTER XV FATHER ARTHUR O'LEARY

       CHAPTER XVI ARTHUR O'LEARY IN LONDON

       CHAPTER XVII THE REGENCY—STRUGGLE BETWEEN WHIG AND TORY CAMPS—O'LEARY AND THE PRINCE OF WALES

       CHAPTER XVIII BISHOP HUSSEY

       CHAPTER XIX PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS DEEP IN TREASON—PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT

       CHAPTER XX THOMAS REYNOLDS: SPY, AND BRITISH CONSUL

       CHAPTER XXI ARMSTRONG AND THE SHEARESES—GENERAL LAWLESS

       APPENDIX

       LORD DOWNSHIRE'S MYSTERIOUS VISITOR

       GENERAL NAPPER TANDY

       'O'

       ' SIR CHARLES WILLIAM FLINT

       ROBERT AND ROGER O'CONNOR

       ARTHUR O'CONNOR

       LADY MOIRA AND TODD JONES

       JAMES TANDY AND McNALLY

       A TARDY AMENDE TO LORD CAMDEN.—THE FRENCH IN IRELAND

       JOHN POLLOCK

       WALTER COX [793]

       ' REMEMBER ORR! '

       ' THE WEARING OF THE GREEN '

       FATHER O'LEARY

       PRIESTS AS SECRET AGENTS

       INDEX

CHAPTER I

       A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR

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It is now some years since Mr. Froude invested with new interest the Romance of Rebellion. Perhaps the most curious of the episodes disclosed by him is that where, after describing the plans and organisation of the United Irishmen, he proceeds to notice a sensational case of betrayal.[4]

      An instance has now to be related [he writes] remarkable for the ingenious perfidy with which it was attended, for the mystery which still attaches to the principal performer, and for his connection with the fortunes and fate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

Lord Edward's movements had for some time been observed with anxiety, as much from general uneasiness as from regret that a brother of the Duke of Leinster should be connecting himself with conspiracy and treason. His proceedings in Paris in 1792 had cost him his commission in the army. In the Irish Parliament he had been undistinguished by talent, but conspicuous for the violence of his language. His meeting with Hoche on the Swiss frontier was a secret known only to a very few persons; Hoche himself had not revealed it even to Tone; but Lord Edward was known to be intimate with McNevin. He had been watched in London, and had been traced to the lodgings of a suspected agent of the French Directory; and among other papers which had been forwarded by spies to the Government, there was one in French, containing an allusion to some female friend of Lady Edward, through whom a correspondence was maintained between Ireland and Paris. Lady Edward's house at Hamburg was notoriously

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